Movie
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Released: May 2, 2006 (2006)
Genres: Documentary
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips from the Tony Awards shows, this unique collection features acting powerhouses James Earl Jones, Annette Bening, Joan Allen, Joe Mantegna, Gary Sinise and Maggie Smith, among others, performing works by such playwrights as August Wilson, David Mamet, Wendy Wasserstein and more.
Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)
- James Earl Jones as Jack Jefferson (segment "The Great White Hope") / Troy Maxson (segment "Fences")
Age at release: 75
- Margaret Tyzack as Lotte Schoen (segment "Lettice and Lovage")
Age at release: 74
- Maggie Smith as Lettice Douffet (segment "Lettice and Lovage")
Age at release: 71
- Jane Alexander as Eleanor Bachman (segment "The Great White Hope") / Sara Goode (segment "The Sisters Rosensweig")
Age at release: 66
- John Lithgow as René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly")
Age at release: 60
- Harvey Fierstein as Host
Age at release: 53
- Gary Sinise as Randle P. McMurphy (segment "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest")
Age at release: 51
- Amy Morton as Nurse Ratched (segment "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest")
Age at release: 47
- BD Wong as Song Liling (segment "M. Butterfly")
Age at release: 45
- Tim Sampson as Chief Bromden (segment "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest")
Age at release: Unknown
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- Art Carney as Andy Tracey (segment "Lovers")
Age at release: 87
- Anna Manahan as Hanna (segment "Lovers")
Age at release: 81
- Robert Prosky as Andrey Botvinnik (segment "A Walk in the Woods")
Age at release: 75
- Philip Bosco as Saunders (segment "Lend Me a Tenor")
Age at release: 75
- Carl Gordon as Doaker (segment "The Piano Lesson")
Age at release: 74
- Linda Lavin as Marjorie (segment "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife")
Age at release: 68
- Tony Roberts as Ira (segment "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife")
Age at release: 66
- Sam Waterston as John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods")
Age at release: 65
- Robert Klein as Mervyn Kant (segment "The Sisters Rosensweig")
Age at release: 64
- Madeline Kahn as Gorgeous Teitelbaum (segment "The Sisters Rosensweig")
Age at release: 63
- Michele Lee as Lee (segment "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife")
Age at release: 63
- Ron Silver as Charlie Fox (segment "Speed-the-Plow")
Age at release: 59
- Joe Mantegna as Bobby Gould (segment "Speed-the-Plow")
Age at release: 58
- Peter Friedman as Scoop Rosenbaum (segment "The Heidi Chronicles")
Age at release: 57
- Victor Garber as Max (segment "Lend Me a Tenor")
Age at release: 57
- Charles S. Dutton as Boy Willie (segment "The Piano Lesson")
Age at release: 55
- Tim Daly as Leo Hart (segment "Coastal Disturbances")
Age at release: 50
- Joan Allen as Heidi Holland (segment "The Heidi Chronicles")
Age at release: 49
- Annette Bening as Holly Dancer (segment "Coastal Disturbances")
Age at release: 47
- Rocky Carroll as Lymon (segment "The Piano Lesson")
Age at release: 42